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Design Patterns: The Simple Factory Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

When you think of Factory, what comes in your mind? I would say a place where things are produced.

Avinash Zala • 25 Jan 2015
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Design Patterns: The Strategy Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

So far we have covered three design patterns in this series. We have defined four categories of different design patterns. In this article, I am going to...

Avinash Zala • 24 Jan 2015
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Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

Earlier in this series we explored the facade and adapter design patterns. Using facade, we can simplify large systems, and by implementing adapter we can...

Avinash Zala • 23 Jan 2015
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Design Patterns: The Adapter Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

In the previous article we saw how the facade design pattern can be employed to simplify the employment of any large and complex system using only a simple...

Avinash Zala • 8 Nov 2014
OOP

Design Patterns: The Facade Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we are going to cover the facade design pattern. It falls under the category of structural patterns because it deals with how your code...

Avinash Zala • 19 Oct 2014
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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: A Summary

Tutorial • Beginner

At this point, it's time to draw this beginner's series to a close but prior to doing so, I'd like to provide a summary of each of the articles so that we...

Tom McFarlin • 25 Jun 2014
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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Inheritance II

Tutorial • Beginner

In the previous article, we introduced the concept of object-oriented inheritance, attempted to place it laymen's terms, and then also took a high-level look...

Tom McFarlin • 19 Jun 2014
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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Inheritance I

Tutorial • Beginner

One of the hardest parts of writing a series for beginners on object-oriented programming is knowing where to stop. There are so many topics to cover that...

Tom McFarlin • 11 Jun 2014
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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Document The Plugin II

Tutorial • Beginner

At this point in the series, we're ready to move forward with rounding out our plugin by documenting our files, classes, functions, variables, and more. ...

Tom McFarlin • 22 May 2014
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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Building the Plugin II

Tutorial • Beginner

In the previous article in this series, we finally began preparing the foundation for the plugin that we're going to be writing. Specifically, we took a...

Tom McFarlin • 15 May 2014
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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Building the Plugin I

Tutorial • Beginner

At this point in the series, we're finally able to begin building our first plugin using the object-oriented techniques that we've learned thus far in the...

Tom McFarlin • 13 May 2014
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Object-Oriented Programming in WordPress: Scope

Tutorial • Beginner

In continuing our discussion of object-oriented programming in WordPress, we need to begin talking about the idea of scope. In short, this refers to the...

Tom McFarlin • 22 Apr 2014